Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2018
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Summary
In 2022, Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA was among 19 new ‘academicians’ to have been elected to the prestigious Academia Sinica, the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Wen-chin is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London, and joins two other humanists in this year’s elections. The Academia Sinica was founded in China in 1928 to promote and undertake scholarly research in the sciences and humanities. After the ROC government moved to Taiwan in 1949, Academia Sinica was re-established in Taipei.
Current post
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS University of London
Publications
Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition
Wen-ching Ouyang - Published in 2013 by Edinburgh University Press
Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition
Wen-chin Ouyang - Published in 2012 by Edinburgh University Press
Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition
Wen-chin Ouyang - Published in 1997 by Edinburgh University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Dawn Chatty FBA
Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods
Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA
The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra
Professor Andrew Peacock FBA
The history, intellectual culture, manuscripts and philology of the pre-modern Islamic world
